[First in the Field by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookFirst in the Field CHAPTER FIVE 3/28
But in any case you may want to shoot snakes and the wonderfully beautiful birds which you will see in the bush.
A gun is a necessity for a settler, and so are those." She pointed to a parcel on a side table. "Fetch those here, and open the paper." Nic fetched the strongly done-up packet, opened it with trembling fingers, and laid bare a beautifully finished axe and a sheath knife of the finest steel, with stout buckhorn handle and leathern belt. "Not drawing-room presents, my boy," said the lady, smiling, "but suitable for a young settler.
There, you can squeeze those in your portmanteau; the gun you can have when we get over the sea." "But, Lady O'Hara!" faltered Nic; "the gun--such an expensive one." "Of course it is.
Who'd buy cheap rubbish to take abroad? You want the plainest and the best that money can buy." "Yes, but I meant--" "That they were too costly to accept? Not a bit, my boy.
We owe your father a deep debt.
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